Yet I’ve too often been shocked – SHOCKED – by how transparently upstanding guys (equally mediocre at tennis) would engage in unseemly behavior while playing me – either blatant cheating or behaving ridiculously with false machismo. Trust me, no match that ever involved me was worth either cheating for or boasting about.

With that as a frame of reference, I guess I don’t regard Djokovic’s behavior as all that demonstrative. After all it was the longest Grand Slam final in history, no? I was just impressed he still had that much energy to disrobe and yell.